And have you seen our leaderboard of authors with the most retractions lately - or our list of top 10 most highly cited retracted papers? There are more than 38,000 retractions in our database - which powers retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. Our list of retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers is up to more than 300. Exclusive: Prof stole former student’s identity to edit two journal special issues.Harvard surgeon has five papers pulled following internal investigation.Five years on, convicted transplant surgeon earns expressions of concern from Lancet.Paper with authorship posted for sale retracted over a year after Retraction Watch report.W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Continue reading Journal investigating Sodom comet paper for data problems Mark Boslough, a retired physicist and expert in planetary impacts and airbursts (when celestial bodies explode above the earth’s surface) kicked off the criticism, and other scientists quickly joined in. Soon after the article’s publication, its claims attracted scrutiny on Twitter, as we reported at the time. It has been cited six times in the scientific literature, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science, and Altmetric shows it has gotten more online attention than most other papers of a similar age. The article, “ A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea,” was published in Scientific Reports, a Springer Nature title, in September 2021. It appeared just days after Retraction Watch asked the publisher for an update on the case. The note follows a litany of criticism on Twitter, PubPeer, and in a “Matters Arising” response, as well as an extensive correction published last year. 53 from the paper: A simulation of an airburst by physicist Mark Boslough, to which he says incorrect labels were addedĪ paper that caught flak for its claims that an ancient city in the Middle East was destroyed by an exploding celestial body – and the authors’ suggestion that the event could have inspired the Biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah – now has an editor’s note acknowledging the journal is looking into concerns about its data and conclusions.
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